Nkrumah Steward

Fact #18 of 28 Sexual relations between Blacks and Whites was the worst kept secret about the institution of slavery. Consider this quote from Mary Chesnut, “Our men seem to think themselves patterns – models of husbands and fathers. But …

Fact #17 of 28 There are always those, who you will come across from time to time who seem to have been raised to believe that something called Benevolent Slavery exists. That sure, there were horrible Masters, but there most …

Fact #16 of 28 Whenever human beings interact, they rub off on one another. The ways in which they rub off on one another can rarely be predicted. When this involves large groups of people over extended periods of time …

Fact #15 of 28 When we study history, we have to be careful not to take things out of their proper context or to project our current expectations onto it. When we look at Abolitionists we might want to imagine …

Fact #14 of 28 Yes, there were Black slave-owners in the Antebellum South; less than half of all Black slave-owners owned just a single Slave, most likely this slave was one of their family members whom they had purchased from …

Fact #13 of 28 There is a phenomenon in Quantum Physics called Quantum Entanglement. Quantum entanglement occurs when particles are “linked” in such a way that whatever changes on one particle instantly adjust the particle that it is entangled with. …

Fact #11 of 28 In 2008, the whole nation saw firsthand during Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign the African-American community make an issue about whether or not Barack Obama was “Black enough”. What does that mean exactly? For a Slave, one …

Fact #12 of 28 The Civil War began because wealthy Southern Planters were beside themselves that an Anti-Slavery candidate had won the Presidential Election. Outside of former President John Quincy Adams, there had always been a sitting President who had been …

Fact #10 of 28 12 Million Africans were kidnapped, nearly all by Africans themselves and then brought to Europeans, traded for some bull$hit and then marched aboard slave ships with the aim of bringing them to the new world creating …

Fact #09 of 28 In order to meet the definition of an Uncle Tom three very specific criteria have to be met. First, the person has to be Black. There is no getting around this. So don’t try. Although every …

Fact #7 of 28 Those Americans who argued first and most vigilantly that the best form of government is both small and weak were those who represented the interests of the aristocracy of the Antebellum South. Considering the time, before …

Fact #04 of 28 The distinctive Southern drawl we know today is the unintended consequence of southern Planter’s children imitating the broken English of their enslaved African caretakers who few English words they could pronounce, they did so with heavy …